548 C. 30. Anno undecimo Georgii Regis. A. D. 1724. feliion thereby, and to prevent Ships breaking their Shiarentine, and to fubjefl Copper Ore of the Production of the Britifh Plantations 10 fetch Regulations, as other enumerated Commodities of the like Produtlion are fub/ecl, which A£t was to continue in Force for two Years, from the twenty-fifth Day of March one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-two, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament, fhall be and is hereby continued from the Expiration thereof, for and during the Space of three Years, and Exception. from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament, except fo much of the fame Act ss relates to Ships or VefTels performing Quarantine. 4 Geo. 1. c 12. ' V. And whereas by an Act made in the fourth Year of his'Majefty's Reign, intituled, An At! for en- 6 forcing and making perpetual an Acl of the twelfth Year of her late Majefiy, intituled, An Act for preferving ' "all fuch Ships, and Goods thereof, which ihall happen to be forced on fhore or ftranded on the Coaft ' of this Kingdom, or any other of his Majefty's Dominions, and for infixing the Punijhment of Death ' on fuch as fhall wilfully burn or dejlroy Ships, it is amongft other Things enacted, That if any Owner of '" or Captain, Mafter, Mariner, or other Officer belonging to. any Ship, fhall after the twenty-fourth
- Day of June which fhall be in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and eighteen, wilfully
' caft away, burn, or otherwife deftroy the Ship, of which he is Owner, or unto which he belongs, or 4 in any manner or wife direct or procure the fame to be done, to the Prejudice of any Perfon or Perions ' that mail underwrite any Policy or Policies of Infurance thereon, or of any Merchant or Merchants that ' fhall load Goods thereon, he mail fuffer Death. ' VI. And whereas fome Doubts have arifen touching the Nature of the Offence provided againft by 1 the laid recited Aft, and the Trial and Punifhment to be had and inflidled for the fame,' Be it there- Wilfully deftroy- fore enacted and declared by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Owner of, or Captain, Mafter, Officer ing Ships, Death. or Mariner belonging to any Ship or Vefle!, fhall after the four and twentieth Day of fune one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-five, wilfully caft away, burn, or otherwife deftroy the Ship or VefTel of which he is Owner, or to which he belongeth, or in any wife direct or procure the fame to be done, with Intent or Defign to prejudice any Perfon or Perfons, that hath or fhall underwrite any Policy or Policies of Infurance thereon, or of any Merchant or Merchants that fhall load Goods thereon, or of any Owner •or Owners of fuch Ship or Veffel, the Perfon or Perfons offending therein, being thereof lawfully con- victed, mail be deemed and adjudged a Felon or Felons, and fhall fuffer as in Cafes of Felony without Benefit of Clergy. How thefe Of- VII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid. That if any of the faid Offences, in wil- fences are to f u ]]y calling away, burning, or otherwife deftroying any Ship or VefTel as aforefaid, fhall be committed be tried. within the Body of any County of this Realm, the fame fhall and may be enquired of, tried, determined and adjudged in the fame Courts, in fuch Manner and Form, as Felonies done within the Body of any County, by the Laws of this Realm, are to be enquired of, tried, determined and adjudged ; and if any of the faid Offences fhall be committed upon the High Seas, the fame fhall be enquired of, tried, deter- a8 H, 3. c. 15. mined and adjudged before fuch Court, and in fuch Manner and Form, as in and by an Act made in the eight and twentieth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled, For Pirates, is directed and appointed for the enquiring, trying, determining and adjudging of Felonies done upon the High Seas. CAP. XXX. An Aft for more effectual preventing Frauds and Abufes in the Publick Revenues ; for pre- venting Frauds in the Salt Duties, and for giving Relief for Salt ufed in the curing of Sal- mon and Codfifh, in the Year one thoufand feven hundred and nineteen, exported from that Part of Great Britain called Scotland; for enabling the Infurance Companies to plead the General IfTue in Actions brought againft them ; and for fecuring the Stamp-Dudes upon Policies of Infurance. r '< r- Laws ' ^' W7 H E R E AS notwithstanding the many good Laws which have been made and pafled for pre- reft'r ttizCar. ' W venting of Frauds and Abufes in his Majefty's Duties of Excife, and other his Majefty's Du- z. c. 23 & 24. ' ties which have been put under the Receipt and Management of the refpective Commiffioners of Excife 15 Car. ,1, c. 11. ■< in Great Britain, the feveral and refpecfive Revenues, arifing by and from the faid feveral and refpec- 16 :r l l c j> r - 2. « tive Duties, are very much leiTened by the clandeftine and collufive Importation of Brandy, Arrack, Car' a" Z * ' R um 5 Spirits and Strong Waters, Coffee, Tea, Cocoa-Nuts and Chocolate, into this Kingdom of i"i'K&M.St.T. ' Great Britain from Parts beyond the Seas, without Payment of any of the Duties by Law chargeable c. 24. 1IV.& t on the fame, and the fair-Dealers in the faid Commodities much prejudiced in their Trade therein :' M. Seff.z. c 10. F or Remedy whereof, Be it enaiied by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and
- ^%m' c '^' Content of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament alfembled, and
nW c'.q ' by the Authority of the fame, That from and after the twenty-fourth Day of fune one thoufand feven 8 W. 3.' c. 19'. hundred and twenty-five, it mall and may be lawful to and for the Officers of his Majefty's Revenue of 10 W. 3. c. 21. Excife, or any of them, to go on board and enter into any Ship or VefTel whatfoever which fhall be 12 W. 3. c. 11 within the Limits of any of the Ports of this Kingdom, and to continue on board the fame, and to rum- & 12. 1 Ann. St. 2. c. 3. 4 Ann. c. 6. 8 Ann. c. 7. 10 Ann. c. 19 the laid Commodities as fhall be there found, as by the Laws thereunto refpedtively relating fhall be for- & 26. 12 Ann.' if. 9. 6 Gee, 1. c, 21. After 24 June 1725. OiF.ceis of Excife may go on board Ships to fearch for Brandy, &c, as Cuftom Officers legally may, fcited.
